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The NY Times recently published an article “What Causes Girls to Enter Puberty Early?”  I immediately read the article, especially because I have a 7 year old daughter, and puberty can start as early as 7 years old for some girls.  Basically, they sited that stress, obesity and environmental toxins were prime suspects.  All of these factors affect the endocrine system causing the body to create too much estrogen, which can lead to estrogen positive breast cancer.  The article also sites that early puberty can lead to not only breast cancer, but depression, eating disorders, and substance abuse.  Studies show that mice with cancer under stress are more likely to have metastatic cancer, another reason to manage stress.   

The father of western medicine said it himself, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Since the great Greek doctor Hippocrates, I haven't heard many doctors say it again, until I heard about Dr. Terry Wahls. Dr. Wahls was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and her health was rapidly declining. She eventually needed two canes to walk. She decided that her medicines weren’t working the way she wanted them to and after taking a course in Functional Medicine, she changed her diet and within 6 months, she was walking again without a cane and within a year, she was biking again.